Sentence examples for gust from inspiring English sources

I was standing at South Kensington underground station this winter, and a gust of cold wind crossed the platform.

But it still seems as if one stiff gust of wind could blow it all away.

Real output remains below its pre-recession peak, 15m Americans are unemployed, disinflation continues, and the Europeans stand ready to provide a reinforcing gust of bad news whenever growth looks a little too healthy.

IN THE days before Norodom Sihanouk, then 18, succeeded to the throne, a gust put out the sacred candles lit in the palace to mark the event.

Perhaps a mechanical fault is to blame, or a gust of wind that feels like the opening of an oven door.

But everyone knows that the true state of the union is dire: 13m Americans are unemployed, the recovery is fragile and at any moment the economy could be blown sideways by a new gust of bad economic news from Europe.

A STORM had been brewing for months, but the sudden political gust that swept President Roh Moo-hyun from office still took nearly everyone by surprise.

In translating lines such as "A gust of wind opens up opera-like breaches in the walls", Mr Ashbery is faithful to both the meaning and surreal tone of Rimbaud's work.

The country's youngest-ever leader at 41, he is bright, handsome, cosmopolitan: a gust of fresh air after his lacklustre predecessor as Labour's leader, Thorbjorn Jagland.

Every time a gust of wind blows, Mr Sato says it shakes invisible particles of radioactive caesium off the trees and showers them over the village.

The problem, rather, is the unexpected: an unwary bird; an unmapped tree; a gust of wind.